8 Oct
2014
8 Oct
'14
10:25 a.m.
The limiting factor for old-timers is most likely that it's now next to impossible to read those old backup tapes you have moldering in a closet. Mag tape drives are virtually extinct. I was careful to migrate my bits to new formats from time to time, so I have access to archives of my programs from the 70's - not that any of them are actually useful today, except as nostalgia or archeological evidence. I mess around with a simh based pdp-10, it's much faster than any PDP-10 that ever existed.